The Record of Swordsmen in the Late Sui and Early Tang Dynasties

Chapter 209 190 Eight Caravans Arrive at Green Grass Beach

Under the leadership of Tie Niu, the caravan rumbled towards the northeast. At this time, the sun was just out, the cool wind was blowing, and the prairie was desolate.

The newly sprouted grass has just sprouted, and it looks like a tender piece from a distance, but it seems to be nothing when approaching.

Groups of birds hula-la flew from one side of the grass to the other, chirping and chirping, adding a touch of life to the silent prairie.

The caravan was rushing all the way under the leadership of Tie Niu, and the bare hills on both sides of the road moved slowly backwards. After a while, the caravan disappeared into the depths of the vast prairie.

At noon, the whistling northwest wind blew up again, and the yellow sand all over the sky mercilessly hit people's faces, making them painful.

People struggled against the flying sand all over the sky towards the northeast, without any intention of stopping.

When people are hungry, they take out the dry food they carry with them and take a bite, and when they are thirsty, they drink the water they carry with them.

When the sun was just westward, the caravan found a leeward place in a small ditch to rest for a while, and then continued on its way. When the sun was about to overwhelm the mountain, the caravan finally arrived near the residential area of ​​Qingcaotan .

At this time, large flocks of sheep and cattle wandered on the newly sprouted grassland, gnawing on the freshly sprouted grass.

The prairie in this place is full of vitality.

Duan Wuji knew that the residents of Qingcaotan were not far away.

Seeing this, Duan Wuji shouted excitedly: "Everyone, speed up, we will be there in a while, and we will have a good rest when we arrive at Yelusidu's house."

After hearing this, the people rushed forward desperately and drove the carriage forward, and they entered the Qingcaotan residents' spot in a short time.

By the time people drove their carriages into Yelu Sidu's house, the sun had really set over the mountains, a red glow floated in the sky, and the earth was ablaze red.

Yelu Sidu and Yelu Chucai took it out from the house, and they were very happy to see the carts all over the yard.

"Wuji, you have finally rushed over, we are waiting for you at home, so many goods have been transported at once, now you can be considered rich.

Come on, let's have some tea first. "

Duan Wuji said with a smile: "Master Yelv Sidu, this time we are desperately spending our money, and we will strive to cooperate again this time to see if we can make money, but if we can't make a lot of money, make some money." Small money is fine too!

Hey, everyone, hurry up and unload the horses from the carriage, and hurry up to drink and feed the horses. It's been a day's journey, and the horses are probably exhausted long ago. "

After hearing this, the carriage owners unloaded their animals one after another, and tied the horses to the hitching posts in the yard. Yelu Chucai made arrangements to help the people fetch water and drink the horses, and then directed the people to carry out the hay from a room. .

After all these arrangements were settled, people's hearts were finally relieved.

Yelusi turned around and said to Yelu Chucai: "Go to the kitchen to make arrangements, you see, these 100 people are probably already hungry.

Hurry up and ask Somiya and the others to warm up the meat quickly, let people have breakfast early, and let's eat together later. "

When Yelu Chucai heard this, he immediately turned around and went straight to the kitchen. After a short time, the kitchen was filled with smoke.

Yelusi looked at Duan Wuji and said: "Wuji, this is the most goods you have brought since we met.

Do you want to exchange all the horses I have collected? "

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Old man, we have this idea, think about it, what's the use of so many horse eggs? How much grass do you have to eat in a day if you don't pick them up?

Brother Yelu, the treasurer, told me in the past that he has [-] horses here. Do you think I can replace these horses with less goods? "

"Then how many taels of silver did you bring this time?"

"We brought nearly 8 taels of goods this time, otherwise how could we have so much?"

"Ah? That much money? How many horses do you plan to exchange for me?"

"Old man, how about you give me eight thousand five hundred horses?"

Yelusi shook his head with a smile.

"Wuji, your mouth is too big. I can't agree to your condition. How about this? How about I give you [-] fine horses and ten fat cows?"

Duan Wuji smiled wryly after hearing this: "Old man, you really know how to do business! If you don't make a fortune with this little abacus, you will be unreasonable."

Yelusi laughed out loud.

"Wuji, we are each other, are there any fools in business? Even fools can't do this business? Do you think so?"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Old man, since you said so, then I will follow you, but let's agree, I have to choose my [-] horses from your tens of thousands of horses, bad I will leave you the horses, we only want the good ones, do you think this is good?"

"Well, well, all the good and bad horses here are slaughtered for meat, and the slow horses may gain weight more easily and produce more meat."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Old man, you raise horses for meat, we sell horses to make money, it doesn't matter if the horse is fat or thin, as long as the horse is energetic and fast, we don't have any other conditions."

At this moment, Somia and another young maid came out carrying two large pots of meat.

"Dinner is ready, one is beef and the other is horse meat, whichever you want to eat! We have more after we finish eating!"

Somia shouted loudly.

After hearing this, everyone immediately gathered to the side of the big basin, grabbed a large piece of meat and started to eat. Everyone was starving, so how ugly the food was.In a short time, the two big pots of meat were finished.

The two maids then brought out two more pots, and then people stopped fighting.

Then, the two maids brought out two large bowls of haggis soup from the house. When everyone saw it, they quickly picked up the bowls and drank it in big gulps.

Duan Wuji looked at Yelu Chucai and said with a smile: "Brother Yelu, this is enough for them, so you don't have to take care of them anymore.

Let's hurry up and cook for the few of us.After eating, we can rest early. "

"okay."

Yelu Chucai turned around and said a few words in Turkic, the two Turkic women nodded, and then they turned and went back to the kitchen.

Yelusi smiled and said to Duan Wuji: "You two brothers from the Han family, let's go, follow me into the house, let's drink tea first, the food will be ready in a while, let's have a drink tonight." He can't take two bowls."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Okay, okay! Old man, please invite first, and then we will arrive."

The father and son smiled and turned to enter the house. Duan Wuji walked up to Duan Changqing and lowered his voice, "Brother Changqing, I will be on duty for a while. Let's do the third shift. We will shift every two hours." .

The three of you brothers each lead a shift, and you should be more energetic when you are on duty, and you must not make any mistakes.

Tell them that those who are not on duty are not allowed to take off their clothes when they are sleeping, and everyone should take their belongings with them, and we will come to respond in time if there is a situation, do you hear me clearly? "

Duan Changqing listened and nodded.

"Brother, I know about this, don't worry, nothing will go wrong."

"Well, that's good, your brother Tieniu and I will stay with Nayelu and his son for a while, you have to take care of our things!"

"Brother, you can go at ease. Don't worry about this place. I will leave it to me. I will hold a meeting for my two brothers in a while."

Duan Wuji listened a little bit, and Duan Wuji came to Tieniu and said: "Brother Tieniu, let's go, let's go into the house, it won't be good if we don't go in."

"okay."

Saying that, the two walked side by side towards the main room.

I went to the house and saw that Yelu and his son were sitting at the table drinking tea and waiting.

When the two entered the room, Yelu and his son quickly poured tea for them to drink. While drinking tea, they chatted with Yelu and his son.

Yelu Chucai looked at Duan Wuji and said with a smile: "You two virtuous brothers, you came here fast enough! It can be seen that you have opened up all the gates of the Sui Dynasty. Your ability is really great!"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Isn't this feeding something? If you don't feed it once, it won't work the next time!

In addition, relying on the relationship of Mr. Chai, as the saying goes, it is good to rest under the big tree, and we rely on his big tree to have food.

Hey, Brother Yelu, are there any particularly good horses in your batch of fine horses this time? "

"A particularly good horse? Is it a good-looking horse? Or a fast horse?"

"Of course it's a fast horse!"

Yelusi laughed.

"There are two horses that run fast, a black horse and a red horse. These two horses are a head taller than the other horses, just like the camels in the flock. These two horses are called running. It's fast, running ten miles can knock other horses down by two or three miles.

But these two horses are lunatic horses, they bite people when they see them, and they kick when they see horses. No one can subdue them. I wanted to train them to be mounts a few days ago.

When I rode on its back, the damn it lost more than 100 kicks alone, and the white top threw me off, alas, I fell in pain for five or six days.

But damn it broke me, I wanted to catch it and kill it for meat, well, guess what, I went to see it yesterday, these two fucking bastards have been boiled for a few days up.

Wherever they run, other horses will follow.

Damn it, these two bastards have become smart. I caught them for a long time yesterday, but I didn't catch them, but it made me very angry. "

Duan Wuji laughed and said, "Where did these two horses come from?"

"Where did they come from? My elder brother bought them from the North Sea. It is said that these two horses are very wild. They just go to the North Sea to catch fish and eat them. You think it's weird." What? Have any of you seen this horse go into the sea to catch fish?"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Brother Yelu, why not just give them to me, they are the horses, let them lead them, so I will save energy when I go back to the horse this time? Brother Yelu, don't you think so? "

"Lead by them? Are you kidding me? What if they lead you towards the North Sea? Could it be that you still follow them to the North Sea?"

"Duan Wuji listened and said with a smile: "Brother Yelu, as the saying goes: One thing is one thing, and the brine is tofu.I'm not bragging, any horse will be very obedient when it gets on my side. No horse dares to be disobedient when it sees me. If you don't believe me, I will subdue it for you tomorrow. "

Yelu Chucai laughed out loud.

"Okay, okay! Brother Wuji, as long as you can subdue them, then I will give you both for free."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Okay, let's make a deal."

After a short time, Somia brought the meal.

Duan Wuji saw it, ho!There are still big pots of meat, one pot of beef, one pot of horse meat, and another pot of haggis soup.There are only two more vegetables, one is submerged sand scallions, and the other is submerged wild leeks. These two things are common vegetables in summer and autumn on the prairie. Herdsmen often collect them and submerge them in salt water as salt vegetables. eat.

To be honest, it is not bad to be able to eat these two dishes on this prairie.

Yelusi poured two bowls of wine for both of them.

"Eat, just eat with wine."

The two of them were not polite, they stretched out their hands to overtake the big piece of meat and started to eat it. To be honest, the two of them were already hungry. After eating eight or nine yuan, each person ate at least four or five catties.

After the two drank the wine, two more bowls of haggis soup came, and now the two of them were completely full.

Duan Wuji and Tie Niu stood up and bowed their hands towards them.

"Old man, Brother Yelu, we are full, you should rest, we went back to rest, see you tomorrow."

After speaking, the two retreated from the main room.

(End of this chapter)